Deleting your PokerTab account

This is the page Google Play's data-deletion link points at. It is written to be read by a person who wants their account gone, not by a developer.

In the app

Your account → Delete your account.

The screen tells you what deletion does before it does it, group by group, and nothing happens until you confirm on top of that. There is no undo, and no way to sign back in afterwards.

What is deleted

• Your account itself, and your name on it.
• The Google or Apple sign-in you linked, if you linked one. It is detached from PokerTab — signing in with it again starts a new, empty account rather than bringing this one back.
• Any group you host that nobody else with an account is left in, because nobody could ever open it again. Its nights go with it, and the confirmation screen names it and counts them first.

What is not deleted, and why

The nights you played stay in the history and standings of the groups you played them in, under the name you played under.

A poker night is not one person's record. Your buy-ins and your result are half of what everybody else at that table settled up on, and some of those payments were actually made. Removing them would silently change money other people already agreed on, months later, without telling them.

So your poker identity in each group is separated from your account. The row keeps the name and the results; it stops being connected to any account, and it becomes exactly what a guest player is — somebody at the table who never had an app. You come off every roster and out of every line-up, the way a player who stopped coming does. Nobody can sign in as you, and nothing can be added under your name again.

If you have not played a night yet, there is nothing of yours in anybody else's history, and you disappear from the rosters completely.

If you want your name off those past nights, ask the group's host to rename that player before you delete your account. A name is a label on a result, not part of it, and a host can change it at any time.

Groups you host

Somebody has to be able to rename a group, reset its join code and manage its guests. If you host a group and somebody else in it has an account, the longest-standing of them becomes the host when you go, and the confirmation screen names them beforehand. If you would rather choose, hand the group over first (group → ⋮ → Hand over host) and then come back.

When it is refused

Deletion is refused while a night is running in a group you are seated at or host. Money on the table is not the moment for something that cannot be undone. Finish the night and try again.

It is also refused while your phone is still holding buy-ins that have not reached the server yet — offline, or in a basement. Those writes can only be sent by your account, and this one cannot be signed back into to send them. Get signal for a moment and try again.

Without the app

If you cannot install PokerTab — a lost phone, a new one, an account you can no longer reach — email pokertab.app@gmail.com with the subject Delete my PokerTab account.

If you signed in with Google or Apple, send the request from the address that sign-in is attached to. That address is what identifies the account, and it is the only thing PokerTab has that can. Deletion happens within 30 days, and you get a reply confirming it.

If you never signed in with Google or Apple, there is nothing to match a request against, and this is worth being plain about: an account that was never secured exists only inside the app on the phone that created it. PokerTab holds no email address, no phone number and no password for it — only the name you typed and the poker results described above. Nobody, including us, can identify which account is yours from an email. Reinstalling the app, or wiping the phone, leaves the account permanently unreachable by anyone, which is as close to deletion as an unidentifiable account can get. If you still have the phone, use the in-app route above.

If you are unsure which of the two you are: open PokerTab and tap your name. The account screen says whether it is secured with a provider, and with which.